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COURSE TITLE : Modern Literature - I << << QN.NO : 6602
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
POETRY
Edmund Spenser “Prothalamion“
John Donne “Woman’s Constancy” “The Indifferent”
“The Apparition”
“Continuitie” “The Good Morrow”
“The undertaking” Holy sonnets: 1& 2
John Milton Paradise Lost Book 1
William Shakespeare Sonnets 1,12,29,80,107,144,152
George Herbert “The Altar” “Redemption”
“Easter”
Andrew Marvell “To His Coy Mistress”
DRAMA
Christopher Marlowe Dr Faustus
Thomas Dekker The Shoemakers’ Holiday
Ben Jonson Volpone or the Fox
John Milton Samson Agonistes
PROSE
Francis Bacon “Of Truth” “Of Marriage and Single Life”
“Of Superstition” “Of Plantations”
“Of Friendship” “Of Revenge”
The Bible: “The Book of Job”
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TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
POETRY
John Dryden “Mac Flecknoe”
Alexander Pope “An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”
William Wordsworth “Tintern Abbey Lines” “Simon Lee”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Dejection: An Ode” “Frost at Midnight”
Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ode to the West Wind” “Ode to a Skylark”
John Keats “Ode to Nightingale” “To Autumn”
Thomas Gray “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Oliver Goldsmith “The Deserted Village”
William Blake (1757 – 1827) “The Lamb” [Songs of Innosence]
“The Little Black Boy” [do.]
“The Chimney Sweeper” [do.]
“The Chimney Sweeper” [Experience]
“The Tiger” [do.] “London” [do.]
From The Everlasting Gospel: “Was Jesus
gentle?....”
George Gordon Lord Byron “She walks in Beauty” “So We’ll go No More a – Roving”
PROSE
Joseph Addison & Essays from The Spectator: 1,2,106,107,108
Richard Steele
Samuel Johnson From “Preface to A Dictionary of the English
Language” in The Longman Anthology of
British Literature, Vol.2,ed David Damrosch,
1999
Oliver Goldsmith From The Citizen of the world, Letters
2,3,4,7,8,10,11
Charles Lamb “Dream Children”
“Oxford in the Vacation”
“Dissertation upon a Roast Pig”
Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal”
William Hazlitt “Mr Coleridge” “Mr Wordsworth”
Thomas De Quincey “On the Knocking of the Gate in Macbeth”
DRAMA
John Dryden All For Love
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
FICTION
Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
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COURSE TITLE : American Literature QN.NO : 6606
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
American literature finds a place on the syllabus of particularly all undergraduate
programmes in B.A. English literature. This syllabus does not emphasize the
wellknown authors of the canon of American Literature. It tries to give the students
an introduction toall the variety of writing that has come into being in it in the
recent decades, includingwritings by the native Indians, African – Americans, Jews
and others.
Poetry
Philip Freneau “The Indian Burying Ground”
Phillis Wheatley “On Being Brought from Africa to America”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “Each and All”
Walt Whitman “There wa a child went forth”
Edgar Allan Poe “Sonnet: To Science”
“Lenore”
“Raven” “Annabel Lee”
Emily Dickinson “I never lost as much but twice”
“I felt a funeral in my brain”
“A Bird came down the walk”
Robert Frost “The Pasture”
“Death of the Hired Man”
Dunbar“An Ante-bellum Sermon”
Jean Toomer From Cane: “Karintha”
“Song of the son”
Carl Sandburg “The People will Live on”
“Chicago”
Karl Shapiro “Auto Wreck”
“A Dome of Sunday”
Sterling Brown “Memphis Blues”
Prose
Ralph Waldo Emerson “The American Scholar”
Henry David Thoreau “Essay on Civil Disobedience”
Robert Frost “The Figure a poem Makes”
Martin Luther King, Jr. “I have a Dream”
Lionel Trilling “On the Teaching of Modern Literature”
Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) “ Impressions of an Indian Childhood” &
“ The School Days of an Indian Girl”
taken from Literary Culture: Reading & Writing Literary Arguments pp.339-349
Drama
Tennessee Williams A Street Car Named Desire
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
Fiction
Mark Twain Pudd’nhead Wilson
Isaac Bashevis Singer “Gimpel the Fool”
Richard Wright “The Man who was Almost A Man”
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COURSE TITLE : A Survey of British
Literature
QN.NO : 6608
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Areas Prescribed
The Age of Chaucer
Chaucer and his works: His presentation of his society
Chaucer and his Contemporaries
The Renaissance
The Reformation
Navigation and Exploration and the New World
The History of the Drama with special reference to the Elizabethan Age
Elizabethan Poetry: with special reference to the lyric, and the sonnet sequences and the masques
University Wits, Shakespeare.
Ben Jonson and his Theories of Humour.
Romanticism and Classicism in the Elizabethan period
The Metaphysicals and post –Shakespearean Drama [Webster and the rest]
Monarchy after Elizabeth: Its impact on literature
Religious conflict and the Parliamentary conflict, Civil War and Restoration
Milton
Restoration Drama
Neo-classicism: the critical trends and their impact on literature
Development of Satire: Poetry and Prose and Drama
The Beginnings of the Novel
The development of the Press: the Coffee-houses and other influences
Precursors of the Romantic Movement
Industrialization and other movements
The French Revolution and its impact: Conservatism and Radicalism
The Romantic Revival
Romantic Poetry
The Novel
The Romantic contribution to Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice
The Victorian Age: Religion, Science and Industry
The Literature of Social Criticism: Imaginative and otherwise
Victorian Poetry Victorian Drama Victorian Novel Victorian Prose
Victorian Literary Criticism: Movements
The Victorian Ideologies and the revolt against them: Samuel Butler and others
The Wars and their impact
Modern Literature: the generation of Eliot: Poetry, Drama, Novel, Literary Criticism
The generation of Auden , The successors of Auden: The Movement Poetry
The Literature of War and the Literature of Social Criticism
Contemporary Developments: the International Trends in Contemporary Literature
Note: The paper limits itself to the major personalities and major movements. The
question paper should therefore avoid specialized questions on individual authors or
movements.
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COURSE TITLE : Indian Writing in
English
QN.NO : 6610
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Poetry
Toru Dutt “The Lotus’
“Our Casuarina Tree”
“Lakshman”
Rabindranath Tagore “Gitanjali” Verses 1-20
Sarojini Naidu “The Pardah Nashin”
“Village Song”
“Awakew!”
“Summer woods”
Nissim Ezekiel “The Railway Clerk”
“Poet, Lover, Bird watcher”
“Guru”
“From Very Indian Poem in Indian English”
“The Professor”
Kamala Das “The Freaks” “ My Grandmothers
House”
“The Looking-Glass”
R.Parthasarathy From Exile: 2
From Trial: 1, 2, 7, 9, 10
From Home Coming: 1,3, 4, 8, 10.
A.K. Ramanujan “Looking for a Cousin on a Swing”
“A River”
“Of Mother Among Other Things”
“Obituary”
Sri Aurobindo “Revelation” , “Transformation”
“Trance of Waiting” “ The Tiger and the Deer”
“A Dream of Surreal Science”
Jayanta Mahapatra “Indian Summer”
“A Missing Person”
“The Whorehouse in a Calcutta Street”
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra “The Sale” “Continuities”
“A Letter to a Friend”
“Remarks of an Early Biographer” Prose
Jawaharlal Nehru “ The Panorama of India’s Past”
“ A Glory has Departed”
( Both from The Essential Nehru, ed. C.D. Narasimhaiah, Chennai, Mac millan, 1988)
Amartya Sen Indian Tradition and the Western Imagination” in The
Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity. London: Penguin,
2005 pp 139-160.
A.K. Ramanujan “Is there an Indian Way of Thinking? An Informal Essay’
Rabindranath Tagore “Reminiscences”
R.K. Narayan The Following Essays from The Writerly Life, New Delhi:
Penguin,2001.
“Toasted English” pp 267-270
“To a Hindi Enthusiast” pp 315-317
“The Problem of the Indian Writer” pp 457-463
“English in India” pp 464-468
“When /India Was a ?Colony” pp 469-479
“After the Raj’ pp 480-483
Arundhati Roy “ War is Peace” from The Algebra of Infinite Justice, New Delhi,
Viking, 2001 pp239-261
Drama Girish Karnad Naga-Mandala
Mahesh Dattani Dance Like a Man
Rabindranath Tagore Chandalika
Vijay Tendulkar Silence! The Court is in Session!
Fiction
R.K.Narayan The Painter of Signs
Meena Alexander Nampally Road
Amitav Ghosh The Hungry Tide
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COURSE TITLE : Modern Literature - III QN.NO : 6612
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
POETRY
Alfred, Lord Tennyson “The Lady of Shalott” “Tithonus”
“Flower in the crannied wall”
“Crossing the Bar”
Robert Browning “The bishop Orders His Tomb”
“Love among ruins”
Matthew Arnold “Isolation: To Marguerite” “To Marguerite
Continued”
“Dover beach” “The Buried Life”
“The Forsaken Merman”
G M Hopkins “God’s Grandeur” “The Starlight Night”
“Spring” “The Windhover”
“Felix Randal”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti “The Blessed Damozel”
From The house of life: “The Sonnet”
Christina Rossetti “Remember” “After Death”
“A pause” “Winter: My Secret”
Algernon Charles Swinburne “The Leper”
From The Triumph of Time
“I will go back…” (257 -304)
Arthur Symons “Pastel”
PROSE
John Henry Cardinal Newman The Idea of a University
John Ruskin Seasame and Lillies
Thomas Carlyle From Past and Present pp. 1082 – 1093
John Stuart Mill From Autobiography pp. 1132 – 1141
DRAMA
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
J. M. Barrie The Admirable Crichton
FICTION
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
George Eliot Silas Marner
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COURSE TITLE : Modern Literature - IV QN.NO : 6614
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Poetry
Thomas Hardy “The Darkling Thrush”
“The Photograph” “The Two Soldiers”
William Butler Yeats “Among School Children”
“Easter1916” “Sailing to Byzantium”
Thomas Stearns Eliot “The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock”
“The Journey of the Magi”
David Herbert Lawrence “Snake” “Bavarian Gentians”
“The Mess of love”
Wystan Hugh Auden “Musee de Beaux Arts”
“As I walked out One Evening”
“The Unknown Citizen”
Philip Larkin “Church Going” “High Windows”
“Talking in bed”
Ronald Stuart Thomas “A Peasant”
“Country Child” “A Priest to his People”
“To the Farmer”
Edward James Ted Hughes “View of a Pig” “The Bear”
“Crow’s Theology” “Secretary”
“Childbirth” “Six Young Men”
“Relic”
Rupert Brooke “The Soldier” “Menelaus & Helen”
“Lust” “Dead Man’s Love” “Town and Country”
“Home” “Heaven”
Wilfred Owen “Exposure”
“The Parable of the Old Man & the Young”
“The Send-off”
“Greater Love”
“Strange Meeting” “The Next War”
Seamus Heaney “Terminus” “Bogland”
“Punishment”
PROSE
George Orwell “Politics and the English Language”
Edward Morgan Forster “Jew Consciousness”
“What I Believe”
“Does Culture Matter”
Bertrand Russell “The Aims of Education”
Aldous Huxley “Tragedy and the Whole Truth”
“Literature and Examinations”
“Obscurity in Poetry”
“God”
Virginia Woolf “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection”
Lytton Strachey From Eminent Victorians: “Florence Nightingale”
DRAMA
George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart
Thomas Stearns Eliot Murder in the Cathedral
John James Osborne Look Back in Anger
Samuel Beckett Krapp’s Last Tape
Harold Pinter The Birthday Party
FICTION
David Herbert Lawrence Sons and Lovers
George Orwell Animal Farm
Edward Morgan Forster Howard’s End
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COURSE TITLE : Twentieth Century
Canadian Literature
QN.NO : 6616
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
POETRY
E.J. Pratt From “Towards the Last Spike” 83 lines
Dorothy Livesay “The Three Emilys” 32 lines
A M Klien “Autobiographical” 88 lines
Irving Layton “The Fertile Muck” ` 30 lines
Anne Hebert “There is Certainly Someone” 16 lines
Eli Mandel “The Mad Woman of the Plaza de Mayo” 35 lines
Robert Kroetsh “I am getting Old Now” 18 lines
Leonard Cohen “Avalanche” 36 lines
Jeannette Armstrong “Blood of My people” 17 lines
Cyril Dabydeen “Black Duff” 28 lines
PROSE
Northrop Frye “The Narrative Tradition in English-Canadian Poetry”
Margaret Atwood “What’s so funny? Notes on Canadian Humour”
DRAMA
George Ryga Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Uma Parameswaran Rootless but Green are the Boulevard Trees
Sharon Pollock Blood Relations
NOVEL
Margaret Laurence The Fire-Dwellers
Gabrielle Roy Windflower
Mordecai Richler Son of a Smaller Hero
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COURSE TITLE : New Literature in
English
QN.NO : 6618
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Theory
The scope of this section is indicated by the following books. But these books are not to
be
directly involved in the question paper.
Bill Ashscroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, ed. The Empire Writes Back : Theory
and Practice in post-colonial Literatures. London:Routledge. 1989: Sec.ed.2001. New
Accents Series.
Ania Loomba Colonialism / Postcolonialism London:Routledge. Sec.ed.2005. New Accent
Series
Lazarus, Neil, ed The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Prose
Chinua Achebe “An image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”
Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, “A
Country Childhood”
Drama
Wole Soyinka The Lion and The Jewel
Athol Fugard & John Kani and Winston Ntshona The Island
Poetry
Shaw Neilson “To a Blue Flower” (10 lines)
“Stony Town” (22 Lines)
A. D.Hope “Australia” (28 Lines)
“Standardisation” (40 lines)
“The Death of a Bird” (36 lines0
“Noschus Moschifereus:
A Song for Saint Cecilia’s Day” (48 lines)
Judith Wright “ Woman to Man” (20 lines)
Vincent Buckley “ Fellow Travellor” (10 lines)
“Youth Leader” (9 lines)
“ Parents” (25 lines)
Peter Porter “Your Attention Please” (32 lines)
Leopold Sedar Senghor “ New York” (44 lines)
Bernard Dadie “I Thank you God” (27 lines)
Dennis Brutus “ A Common Hatred Enriched
Our Love and Us” (13 lines)
“ You laughed, laughed and laughed” (45 line)
Gabriel Okara “ Once Upon a Time” (43 lines)
David Rubadiri “A Negro Labourer in Liverpool” (31 lines)
Arthur Nortje “Letter from Pretoria Central Prison” (35
lines)
David Diope “Africa” (24 lines)
Derek Walcott “Ruins of a Great House” (57 lines)
“ A Sea-Chantey” (84 lines)
“ A Far Cry From Africa” (33 lines)
Mervyn Morris “Literary Evening, Jamaica” (37 lines)
Shirley Lim “Words for Father” (59 lines)
Mohammed Haji Salleh “Blood” (25 lines)
Kirpal Singh “To a Visitor to Singapore” (12 lines)
“Change” (10 lines)
Jasmine Gooneratne “There was a Country” (24 lines)
Katherine Mansfield “The Man with Wooden Leg” (13 lines)
Zulficar Ghose “This Landscape, These People” (72 lines)
“Phesant” (42 lines)
Fiction
V S Naipaul The Mimic Men
Nadine Gordimer Loot and Other Stories
Shyam Selvadurai Cinnamon Gardens
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
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COURSE TITLE : Shakespeare QN.NO : 6620
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
General Shakespeare: Shakespearean Theatre, Classification of
Shakespeare’s plays, Sources, Characterization, and
Soliloquy.
Early Play Richard II
Romantic Comedy Midsummer Night’s Dream
Roman Play Julius Caesar
Tragedy Othello
Last Play Cymbeline
Problem Play Measure for Measure
Poem The Rape of Lucrece
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COURSE TITLE : Modern Literature - I << << QN.NO : 7301
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit 1 Poetry I
1. Edmund Spenser: Prothalamion
2. Andrew Marwell: To His Coy Mistress
3. Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (The Atticus Passage)
4. Donne: Death be not Proud, Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Unit II Poetry II
1. John Milton : Lycidas
2. Shakespeare : Sonnet No 1, 18.
3. Herbert : The Pulley
4. Sidney : My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell
Unit III Drama I
1.Christopher Marlowe : Dr. Faustus
2.Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
Unit IV Drama II
1.Ben Johnson : Volpone or the Fox
2.Sheridan : The School for Scandal
Unit V Prose
1.Francis Bacon : Of Studies, Of Truth, Of Marriage and Single Life, Of Death
2.The Bible: Book of Job
The textbooks for this course are listed in the syllabus.
Reference Books:
Hammond .G ed. Elizabethan Poetry: Lyrical and Narrative. London, 1984. Casebook
Series.
Bennett, Joan. Five Metaphysical Poets. London Cambridge University Press, 1974. Reprint.
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COURSE TITLE : Modern Literature - II QN.NO : 7302
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Poetry
1.John Dryden : Mac Flecknoe
2.William Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey
3.Shelley : Ode to the West Wind
4.William Blake : The Tiger
Unit II Prose
1. Samuel Johnson : Life of Milton
2. Edward Gibbon : Memoirs of my Life and Writings.
3.Oliver Goldsmith: ‘Man in Black’ ‘Citizen of the World’
4.Hazilitt: My First Acquaintance with Poets, On Reading Old Books.
5.Lamb : Dream Children
Unit III Drama
1.Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
Unit IV Fiction I
1.Sir Walter Scott: The Bride of Lammermoor
Unit V Fiction II
1.Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
The text books for this course are listed in the syllabus.
Reference:
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature. London. 1990. OUP
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COURSE TITLE : A Survey of British
Literature
QN.NO : 7303
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Before and After Chaucer
1.English literature before Chaucer
The Age of Chaucer
Chaucer to Tottel’s Miscellany
2.The Development of the Drama to Gorboduc
The Renaissance and the Reformation
Unit II Shakespeare to Milton
1.The Age of Shakespeare- Non-Dramatic Verse, Drama, Prose
The Age of Milton- Milton and Other poets and prose writers
2.Religious conflict and the Parliamentary conflict, Civil War.
Unit III Dryden to Johnson
1.The Age of Dryden – Prose, Drama
The Age of Pope – Verse, prose and the Drama
2.The Age of Johnson – Prose, Novel, Verse
The Development of the Coffee Houses and other influences.
Unit IV Wordsworth to Tennyson
1.The Age of Wordsworth – The Older Poets, The Younger Poets. General Prose,
The Novel.
The Age of Tennyson – Verse, General Prose, The Novel.
2.The French Revolution and its Impact
Development of Education in the Victorian England
Unit V Thomas Hardy to the Present Age
1.The Age of Hardy – The Eighteen – Nineties, Thomas Hardy, Poets of the
Transition, the Revival of Poetry, Dramatists of the Transition , Other playwrights ,
Novelists of the Transition, Twentieth Century Novelists.
P.T.O
The Present Age- G.M.Hopkins, T.S.Eliot and others.
The Changing Novel – Prose, Drama, Miscellanious Prose.
Kitchen- Sink Drama, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee, Robert Bolt.
Tom Stoppard--Movement Poets. Dylan Thomas- Philip Larkin.
Donald Davie.
Writing in Formal Colonies, African, Indian and Carribean.
2.The World Wars and Social Security
Trade Unions in England.
Contemporary Life in England.
Text Book(s):
1. Long William J. English Literature: Its History and its Significance, Kalyani
Publishers,
New Delhi 1977. Reprint.
2. Hudson, W.H. An Outline History of English Literature, B.I Publications Pvt. Ltd,
Bombay, 1961. Print.
3. Trevelyan G.M. Social History of England.
4. Xavier A.G An Introduction to the Social History of England, S. Viswanathan
(Printers
&) Pvt. Ltd. 2005 Print.
5. Ashok Padmaja The Social History of England. Orient Blackswan.
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COURSE TITLE : American Literature QN.NO : 7304
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Theory
1.John Macy Characteristics (of American Literature)
2.Edgar Allan Poe The Philosophy of Composition
Unit II Poetry 1.Ralph Waldo Emerson Each and All
2.Emily Dickinson 1.“Faith” is a fine invention
2. I’m “wife”- I’ve finished that
3. A bird, came down the walk
3.Robert Frost Death of the Hired Man
4.Langston Hughes Mother to Son
5.Gwendolyn Brooks The Mother
6.Jean Toomer From Cane: Karintha
Unit III Prose 1.Henry David Thoreau Essay on Civil Disobedience
2.Martin Luther King I have a Dream
3.Barack Obama Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National
Convention
Unit IV Fiction 1.Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and Sea
2.Richard Wright The Man who was Almost a Man
3.William Melvin Kelley The Dentist’s Wife
Unit V Drama 1.Edward Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
2.Lorraine Vivian Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
Textbook: Texts are taken from The Norton Anthology of American Literature 8
th Edition and other web
sources.
References: Massa, Ann. American Literature in Context IV (1900-1930). London: Methuen, 1982. Print.
Spiller, Robert E. and William Throp, eds. Literary History of United States. NewDelhi:
Amerind, 1963. Print.
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COURSE TITLE : Indian writing in
English << <<
QN.NO : 7305
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Poetry
1.Sarojini Naidu : Village Song
2. R. Parthasarathy : Home Coming
3.Toru Dutt : Lakshman
4.Kamala Das: My Grandmother’s House
5.Jayanta Mahapatra : Indian Summer
A Missing Person
Unit II Prose
1.Jawaharlal Nehru : Discovery of India : The Old Indian Theatre, Raja Ram Mohan Roy
2.Ananda Coomaraswamy : The Dance of Siva
3.S.Radhakrishnan : Indian Religious Thought
4.Pran Neville : Lahore: A Sentimental Journey. Chapters- Introduction, Shopping in
Anarkali, Picnics and Outings.
5. Sri Aurobindo: The Greatness of Indian Literature,The Indian Civilization and Culture
6.Nirad C. Chaudhuri : An Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (Book III, Education)
7.Vivekananda: Lecture from Colombo to Almora: Addresses at Ramnad, Paramakudi,
Manamadurai and Madurai.
8.S.Gopal: Tagore and our Times
9.Raja Rao: The Meaning of India
10.Swami Ranganathananda : Our Cultural Heritage and the Modern ChallengeEthical and
Spiritual Values
11.Ramachandra Guha : On C. Rajagopalachari (in Oct 29, 31 and Nov 2, 2014 issues of
the Swarajya Magazine)
Unit III Drama
1.Vijay Tendulkar : Silence, the Court is in Session.
2.Tagore: Chitra
Unit IV Fiction
1.R.K.Narayan : The English Teacher
2.Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
Unit V Short Fiction
1.Ruskin Bond: My Father’s Trees in Dehra
2.Mulk Raj Anand : The Liar
Study materials for this course will be prepared by the department.
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COURSE TITLE : Modern Literature - III << << QN.NO : 7306
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Poetry
1.Tennyson : Ulysses
2.Browning : Grammarian’s Funeral
3.Mathew Arnold : Dover Beach
4.G.M. Hopkins: The Windhover
Unit II Prose
1.John Ruskin ; Sesame and Lilies
2.Carlyle ; The French Revolution (pp3-17)
Heroes and Hero Worship: The Hero As a Man of Letters, The Hero As a
Poet
3.John Stuart Mill : From Autobiography- Chapters I&II
Unit III Drama
1.Oscar Wilde: the Important of Being Earnest
Unit IV Fiction I
1. Charles Dickens: Hard Times
Unit V Fiction II
1. Thomas Hardy: Mayor of Casterbridge
The textbooks for this course are listed in the syllabus
Reference Book:
Kermode, Franked. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature. London. 1990. OUP.
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PROGRAMME : M.A., English COURSE CODE : 17P2NMC7
COURSE TITLE : Modern Literature - IV QN.NO : 7307
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Poem I
1.W.B. Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium
2.T.S.Eliot : The Journey of the Magi
3.W.H.Auden : Musee de Beaux Arts
Unit II Poem II
1.Philips Larkin; Church Going
2.Ted Hughes : View of a Pig
3.Seamus Heaney: Digging
Unit III Prose
1.Somerset Maugham: After reading Burke
2.Arnold Toynbee: The Relativity of Historical Thought
3.Bertrand Rusell : The Aims of Education,
The Functions of a Teacher
4.Will Durant: Life of Greece: The Zenith of Philosophy
Unit IV Drama
1.G.B.Shaw: Arms and the Man
2.T.S.Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
Unit V Fictions
1.James Joyce : Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2.George Orwell : Animal Farm
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COURSE TITLE : Twentieth century
Canadian Literature << <<
QN.NO : 7308
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Theory 1.Northrop Frye Preface to an Uncollected Anthology
2.Neil Bissoondath The Limits of Diversity
Unit II Poetry 1.E.J. Pratt Silences
2.Wilfred Campbell Winter Lakes
3.A.J.M. Smith The Lonely Land
4.A.M. Klein Portrait of the Poet as a Landscape
5.Dorothy Livesay Ballad of Me
6.Jeannette Armstrong Indian Woman
7.P.K. Page Stories of Snow
Unit III Prose 1.Margaret Atwood “Survival” from Survival
2.Emily Carr “Lecture on Totems” fromOpposite Contraries
Unit IV Fiction 1.Margaret Laurence A Bird in the House
2.Stephen Leacock “The Hostelry of Mr. Smith” from Sunshine Sketches
of a Littletown
3.Alice Munro “The Flats Road” from Lives of Girls and Women
4.Cyril Dabydeen “Deconstructing Castro” from North of the Equator
Unit V Drama 1.George Ryga Ecstasy of Rita Joe
2.Michael Haeley The Drawer Boy
Textbook(s): All texts are drawn from several books and anthologies.
References: New, W.H. A History of Canadian Literature.
Toye, William. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.
Frye, Northrop. The Bush Garden.
Twigg, Alan. Strong Voices. Conversations with 50 Canadian Authors.
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PROGRAMME : M.A., English COURSE CODE : 17P2NMC9
COURSE TITLE : New Literature in
English
QN.NO : 7310
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I
1.Nelson Mandela : Long Walk to Freedom “ A Country Childhood”
2.Chinua Achebe : The Novelist as Teacher
Unit II
1. Wole Soyinka : The Lion and the Jewel
Unit III
1.Bernard B.Dadie: I Thank You God
2.Dennis Brutus: A Common Hate Enriched Our Love and Us
3.Gabriel Okara: Once Upon A Time
4.David Rubadiri: A Negro Labourer in Liverpool
5.Chinua Achebe: Refugee Mother and Child
6.Derek Walcott : A Far Cry from Africa
7.Mervyn Morris: Literary Evening, Jamaica
8.Shirley Lim: Words for Father
9. Muhammad Haji Salleh: Blood
10.Kirpal Singh: To a Visitor to Singapore
11.Kamala Wijerante: To a Student
12.Katherine Mansfield: The Man with the Wooden Leg
13.Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Nowhere, no Trace can I Discover
14.Razia Khan: My Daughter’s Boy Friend
15.A.D. Hope : Australia
Unit IV
1.V.S.Naipaul : A Bend in the River
2.Nadine Gordiner : My Son’s Story
Unit V
1. Bapsi Sidhwa : Ice Candyman
The study materials for this course are listed in the syllabus
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COURSE TITLE : Shakespeare QN.NO : 7312
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I
1.General Shakespeare: Shakespearean Theatre,
2.Classification of Shakespeare’s Plays, Sources
Unit II
1.Romantic Comedy: Twelfth Night
Unit III
1.Roman Play: Julius Caesar
Unit IV
1.Tragedy: Macbeth
Unit V
1.Last Play: The Tempest
2.A.C Bradley : Shakespearean Tragedy. Lecture on Othello.
3.Wilson Knight : The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy
4.Lecture on Hamlet, Macbeth.
5.Harold Bloom : Shakespeare- Centre of the Canon
The textbooks prescribed for this course are listed in the syllabus
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PROGRAMME : M.A., English COURSE CODE : 17P3NMC11
COURSE TITLE : Continental Literature QN.NO : 7314
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Poetry
1. Virgil - The Aenied (The episode of Aeneas and Dido-Book IV and their meeting in the
underworld in Book V) (Latin)
2. Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy (Paradise Cantos 1, 2, 3) (Italian)
3. Rilke – The Book of Pictures- Autumn Day, Evening. (German)
Unit II Prose
1. Michel de Montaigne - Of Books(French)
2. Albert CCamus - ‘ The Myth of Sisyphus’ (French)
3. Jean Paul Sartre- ‘What is Literature’ (French)
Unit III Drama
1. Henrik Ibsen- A Doll’s House (Norwegian)
2. August Strindberg - A Dream Play (Swedish)
3. LuigiPirandello -Six Characters in Search of An Author (Italian)
Unit IV Fiction
1. Milan Kundera – The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Czech)
2. Italo Calvino –Invisible Cities (Italian)
Unit V Short Fiction
1. Leo Tolstoy – Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russian)
2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky – White Nights (Russian)
The textbooks prescribed for this course are listed in the syllabus
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PROGRAMME : M.A., English COURSE CODE : 17P3NMC12
COURSE TITLE : Indian Regional Literature In
Translation
QN.NO : 7315
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Poetry
1.V.Indira Bhavani : Avatars (Tamil)
2.Keetaki Kushari Dyson: After the Rain has ended (Bengali)
3.S.Usha : To Mother (Kannada)
4.Ilango Atikal: The Cilappatikaram (The Tale of an Anklet) (Tamil), The Book of
Madurai, Cantos 11 and 21.
Unit II: Prose
1.S. Vaiyapuri Pillai : Bharathi as seen by me (Tamil)
2.Sri Aurobindo : Tales of Prison life (Bengali)
3.M.K Gandhi : The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Gujarati). Chapters-
Preparation for England, Playing the English Gentleman.
4.Dr. Ambedkar : Speech at Mahad (Marathi)
Unit III: Drama
1.Kalidasa : Abhijnanasakunthalam (Sanskrit)
2.Na. Muthusami: Kattiyakkaran (Tamil)
Unit IV: Fiction
1.Sivasankari : Bridges (Tamil)
2.Bhisham Sahini : Tamas (Hindi)
Unit V: Short Fiction
1.Bandhumadhav: The Poisoned Bread (Marathi)
2.Jayakanthan : Trial by Fire (Tamil)
3.Saadat Hasan Manto : A Tale of 1947(Urdu)
4.MT Vasudevan Nair : Kuttiedathi (Malayalam)
5.Pudumaippittan: The Human Machine (Tamil)
The study materials for this course will be prepared by the department.
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COURSE TITLE : Language and Linguistics QN.NO : 7316
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
UnitI - Origin of English Language and its development
1.The Indo-European Family of languages 2. English in the Germanic 3. Old English 4. Standard
English 5.Modern English 6. American English 7.Indian English 8. e- English.
Unit II - Phonetics
1.Articulatory Phonetics 2. Auditory Phonetics 3. Acoustic Phonetics 4. The Air Stream Process,
5.Organs of speech 6.Active articulators and Passive articulators 7. Description of speech
sounds: Vowels, Diphthongs and Consonants.
Unit III - Morphology
1.Words and word-formation processes: Etymology, Coinage, Borrowing, Compounding,
Blending, Clipping, Backformation, Conversion, Acronyms, Derivation, Prefixes and suffixes,
Infixes and Multiple Processes. 2.Morphology, Morphemes, Free and bound morphemes, Lexical
and functional morphemes, Derivational and inflectional morphemes, Morphs and allomorphs.
Unit IV - Syntax
1.Traditional Grammar (TG) 2. Immediate Constituent analysis (IC) 3. Labeling: Phrase
Structure Grammar (PSG) 4.Transformational Generative Grammar (TG).
Unit V - Semantics
1.What is semantics? Synonymy, Antonym, Hyponymy, Prototypes, Homophones and
homonyms, Polysemy, Word play, Metonymy, Collocation, 2.Semantic changes. Dialect,
Idiolect, Register, Jargon, and Slang.
Reference Books
1. Lyons, J. Language and Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Print.
2. Brown G. & Yule, G. Discourse Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 1983.Print.
3. Aitchison, J. Language Change: Progress or Decay, 2nd
edition, Cambridge University
Press, 1991.Print.
4. Verma, S.K. & N. Krishnaswamy Modern Linguistics—An Introduction Oxford
University Press, 1989. Print.
5. Wrenn,C.L. The English Language. Delhi:AITBS Publishers, 2013.Print.
6. Tarni Prasad. A course in Linguistics, New Delhi: PHI, 2008. Print.
7. Pushpinder Syal & D.V. Jindal. An Introduction to Linguistics New Delhi: PHI, 2014.
Print.
8. Aslam, Mohammad & Aadil Amin Kak. Introduction to English Phonetic and Phonology.
New Delhi: Foundation books, 2011. Print.
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COURSE TITLE : Literature by Women QN.NO : 7317
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Theory
1.Toril Moi Feminist, Female, Feminine
2.Greta Claire Gaard Ecofeminism on the Wing: Perspectives on Human-
Animal Relations
Unit II Poetry
1.Anne Spencer Letter to my Sister
2.Anna Wickham The Affinity
3.Edna St. Vincent Millay [The Courage that my mother had]
4.Dorothy Parker From A Pig’s Eye View of Literature
5.Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
6.Judith Wright Eve to her daughters
7.Sylvia Plath Daddy
Unit III Prose
1.Zora Neale Hurston How It feels to be Colored Me
2.Maya Angelou “The Peckerwood Dentist and Momma’s Incredible
Powers” from I know why the caged bird sings
Unit IV Fiction
1.Elizabeth Bowen The Demon Lover
2.Bessie Head Snapshots of a Wedding
3.Maxine Hong Kingston No Name Woman
4.Temsula Ao Death of the Hunter
Unit V Drama
1.Toni Morrison A Mercy
2.Clare Boothe Luce Slam the Door Softly
Textbook:
Texts are taken from the following book and other sources
Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar, eds. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The
Traditions in English. New York: W.W. Norton, 1985. Print.
Recommended Reading:
Cornilloj, Susan Koppelmen, eds. Images of Women in Fiction: Perspectives. Ohio: BGUP
Press, 1972. Print.
Coward, Rosalind. Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today. London: Paladin, 1984. Print.
Kristeva, Julia. “Women’s Time.” Signs. 7.1 (1981): 13. Print.
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COURSE TITLE : English Language
Teaching
QN.NO : 7318
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I
1. General theories -psychological - cognitive theories 2. pedagogic theories-error
analysis
Unit II
1.Curriculum and syllabus and tests and evaluation 2.curriculum design -basic principles
3.different types of syllabi.4.Test –definition- characteristics of good test. 5.types of questions
Unit III
1.History of English Teaching Methodology 2.Structural Approach 3. Situation Method
4. Audio – Lingual Approach. 5.Audio-visual Method 6. Notional and Functional Methods
Unit IV
1.Current Communicative Approaches 2.Communicative Language Teaching 3. Natural
Approach 4. Co operative Language Learning 5. Content Based Instruction 6. Task Based
Language Teaching
Unit V
1.Teaching of Skills 2.Exploiting prose, poetry, Drama in class 3.Grammar.
Reference Books:
Jack C Richards and Theodrores Rodgers. Approachres and Methods in Language teaching
Brumfitt and Johnson. The communicative Approach to Language Teaching.
J B Heaton writing English Language Tests.
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PROGRAMME : PG NME - English COURSE CODE : 17P3NNM1
COURSE TITLE : English For Formal
Writing
QN.NO : 7319
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I
1. Difference between oral communication and written communication. Values and
Guiding Principles. Difference between formal and Informal Correspondence.
Unit II
1. Different types of writing: Narrative Argumentative and Analytical.
Unit III
1. Formal Correspondence: Description of situation contexts. Styles of formal
correspondence. Formalities.
Unit IV
1. Project Writing: Nature of project writing. Form and content. Writing project
proposal. Formalities
2. Essay writing: Nature of project writing. Form and Content. Writing project
proposal. Formalities. Documentation.
Unit V
1. Drafting of official communication: Circular, Memo, Minutes, Report, Summary,
etc., (domestic), Letters, Agreements, Contracts, etc., (outside organization)
Reference Books:
Baugh. How to Write First-class Letters.
Amin. Fravertly, et al. Grammar Builder
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PROGRAMME : M.A., English COURSE CODE : 17P4NMC15
COURSE TITLE : Literary Criticism QN.NO : 7320
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I
1.Aristotle – Poetics
2.Horace – Ars Poetica
Unit II
1.Sir Philip Sydney – The Defense of Poesy
2.John Dryden – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
Unit III
1.Samuel Johnson – Life of Pope
2.Coleridge – Biographia Literaria, Part I, Chapter 1,4, 13.
3.Matthew Arnold – The Function of Criticism at the Present time
Unit IV
1.T.S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent
2.Edmund Wilson – The Historical Interpretation of Literature
Unit V
1.Foucault – What is an Author?
2.Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex. Chapter XI, Myth and Reality
3.Terry Eagleton – Literary theory: An Introduction: Chapter I. The Rise of English
4.Homie Bhabha – The Commitment to Theory
Text book(s):
1. The Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (Second Edition)
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COURSE TITLE : Research Writing QN.NO : 7321
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Research Writing 1.The Research Paper 2. Selecting a Topic 3. Using the Library 4. Compiling a Working
Bibliography 5.Taking Notes 6. Plagiarism, 7.Outlining, Writing Draft, and Guide to Writing
(pp.1-62 from 7th
edition & pp.3 – 18 from 8th
edition)
Unit II Mechanics of Writing 1.Spelling 2. Punctuation 3. Names of Person, Numbers,4.Titles in the Research Paper,
Quotations, Dates and Times(pp. 66-114 from 7th
edition & pp. 61 - 94 from 8th
edition)
Unit III Creating Documentation I A) List of Works Cited: i) Core Elements: Author,Title of Source, Title of Container, Other
Contributors, Version, Number,Publisher, Publication Date, Location ii) Optional Elements:
Date of OriginalPublication, City of Publication, Other Facts about the Source, Date of Access
B) In-Text Citations (pp. 19 -60 from 8th
edition)
Unit IV Creating Documentation II A) Works Cited: Names of Authors, Titles,Versions, Publisher, Locational Elements,
Punctuation in the Works Cited List,Formatting and Ordering the Works Cited List
B)In-Text Citations: Author, Title, Numbers, Indirect Sources, Repeated Use of Sources,
Punctuation in thein-text citation
C) Citations in Forms Other Print(pp.102-128 from 8thedition)
Unit V The Format of the Research Paper(pp.115-122 from 7
th edition);
Abbreviations (pp. from 233-256 7th
edition & 95-101 from 8th
edition)
Textbook(s):
The following are the sources from where all the 5 Units are drawn.
The Modern Languages Association of America. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers. 7th
Edition. New York: MLA, 2009. Print.
The Modern Languages Association of America. MLA Handbook. 8th
Edition. New York: MLA,
2016. Print.
References:
Anson, Chris M., and Robert A. Schwegler. The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers.
6th ed. New York: Longman, 2010.
Ruszkiewicz, John J., et al. The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers. 9th ed. New York:
Longman, 2010.
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COURSE TITLE : Comparative Literature QN.NO : 7322
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I
Comparative Literature – Definition and Scope
Unit II
Influence and Imitation – Reception and Survival
Unit III
Problems of Literary History – Definition of terms like Epoch, Period, Generation and
Movement.
Unit IV
Genre- Generic Theory – Generic Approach – Tamil Generic Theories
Unit V
Thematology – Theme, Form, Content and Meaning – Theme and Motif –Myths – The
Mutual Illumination of the Arts.
Reference Books:
Satchidanandan, V. Oppilakkiam: An Introduction to Comparative Literature. Madras: OUP,
1985.
Weisstein, Ulrich. Comparative Literature and Literary Theory: Survey and Introduction.
London: OUP, 1973.
Wellek, Rene and Austin Warren. Theory of Literature. Middlesex: Penguin, 1973
Dr. Chandramohan – Comparative Literature.
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PROGRAMME : M.A., English COURSE CODE : 17P4NME2
COURSE TITLE : Introduction to
Journalism
QN.NO : 7323
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I Nature and History of Journalism
1.What is Journalism? Functions and responsibilities of Journalism 2. Early days of
Journalism in India 3. Journalism in Tamilnadu.
Unit II The Laws, Standards and Ethics
1.Nature and Principles of the Constitution of India 2. Fundamental rights: Right to
Information. 3.Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Press: India before and after
Independence. 4.Press Laws. 5.Code of Ethics.
Unit III Practical Journalism
1.Inside a Newspaper – Editorial Department – Editor – Assistant Editors – Editor
2.Reporting – Types and Different Fields. 3.Editing – Principles, Rights and
Responsibilities 4. Style.
Unit IV News Writing in Print & Electronic Media
1.What is News? 2. Elements of News 3.Language of News 4. Radio News Writing and
Television News Writing 5. Online Journalism.
Unit V Writing
1.Free Lance Writing and Professional Writing 2. Column Writing - Features, Articles,
Editorials, Interviews and Reviews. 3.Visual Material 4. Advertising 5. Copy Writing
6.Blog Writing 7. Content writing.
Reference Books:
Parthasarathy, Rangaswami. Journalism in India. New Delhi. India. Print.
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COURSE TITLE : An Introduction to
theory and Practice of Translation
QN.NO : 7324
TIME : 3 Hours MAX.MARKS :75
Unit I
1.Introduction to Translation
2.Terms and Definitions
3.History of Translation
Unit II
1.Kinds of Translation
2.Three Methods of Translation
3.Translation: Science or Art?
Unit III
1.Translation Procedures
2.Equivalence
3.Translator Responsibilities and Requirements
Unit IV
1.The role of linguistics in translation grammar &linguistic analysis: the letter and the
spirit of text
2.Bible Translation
3.Translation of Literature
4.Translation as Scientific and Technological Texts
Unit V
1.Study of Translations Contribution of the Indologists
2.Translator practice
3.Edwin Arnold’s ‘The light of Asia’ and Kavimani Desika Vinayakam Pillai’s
translation
4.Asiya Jothi : The episode of the Mother who has lost her son
5.Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omarkayyam
6.Desika Vinayakam Pillai’s Translation of Omarkayyam
Reference Books:
Ames,P.R.Early Theories of Translation.
Cartrod,J.C.A Linguistic Theory of Translation.
Frenz, Horst. The art of Translation.
Jacobson,Eric. Translation: A Traditional Art.
Lakshmi,H. Problems of Translation.
Lefevene,Andera. Translating Literature.
Nida,Eugene. Towards a Science of Translating.
Nandakumar. Translation: A Creative Process.
Newmarch,Peter. Approches to Translation.
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